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Trump’s attorneys filed something yesterday that they call “PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CIPA § 5 NOTICE AND OBJECTION TO UNAUTHORIZED DELETIONS OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION”. Trump thinks this is the “smoking gun” that is going to prove him innocent of all charges....
by JailTrumpNow
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 09:46 AM PDT
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...to paraphrase an old democratic meme. And speaking of democratic messaging, this is something we have GOT TO GET RIGHT, finally. Which is not to say Democrats haven’t tried, but which is to say, not hard enough. And don’t let the progressive bubble...
by StellaRay
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on Thu Oct 26, 2023 at 09:20 PM PDT
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Foreword America's uniquely nightmarish pariah status, as a 'guns and profit over people' state, is ironclad, irreversible and insane. Mockery-laden 'thoughts and prayers' default responses to daily mass killings are trite, trifling,and thoughtless....
by Irene Fowler
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on Thu Oct 26, 2023 at 07:29 AM PDT
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It is sometimes difficult for me to believe that any one at all could really be a Maga or even defend or support a Maga. Yet we know that about a third of the USA population are Magas, maybe more, even within our own personal families. It seems...
by Valdemarius
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 02:37 PM PDT
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If you haven’t been following the news about the mass shooting at a mall in Texas (I’d say latest shooting — but risk not keeping up with events), there’s already a wikipedia entry for it. The entry notes it may be updated as this is so recent. The...
by xaxnar
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on Sun May 07, 2023 at 12:19 PM PDT
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NY Times house conservative and man obsessed with decadence, Ross Douthat has offered in his latest screed on April 1 advice on how Republicans can use the indictment of Trump to move on away from him. (Hint — Not going to happen. They can’t quit him.)...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Apr 03, 2023 at 01:28 PM PDT
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Today, I read about a really interesting situation that has developed on the right. We need it was going to be circus, but I admit, I thought it might at least be a little while. But, it appears, they are already at it. I will give links for those that...
by jwgarman
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 12:01 AM PST
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The GOP has truly become a Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. They want America Great Again and I think they are trying to evoke the the time where people were all nice. People were all the same. People all had the same values. The halcyon days of our youth....
by iarnstein
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on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 10:15 AM PDT
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Tom Sullivan has a good piece up at https://digbysblog.net/ . He is recounting Robert Draper’s accounts of millions of people so thoroughly sure of their knowledge. In an account of one woman he writes, paraphrasing, ‘they had done their own research;...
by outsidethelines
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 11:20 AM PDT
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A report in The New York Times is horrifying: Russia’s Draft Sends Barely Trained Men to War in Ukraine. Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training Neil...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 08:45 PM PDT
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Abbott and DeSantis, highjacking immigrants and sending them to destinations they would never have ended up under ordinary circumstances- Martha’s Vineyard? Kamala Harris’s residence? They are using innocent human beings, children and infants, to make...
by jmessick
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on Sun Sep 18, 2022 at 06:13 PM PDT
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Georgia Abortion Law Says a Fetus Is Tax Deductible The state’s “fetal personhood” provision now includes a $3,000 tax exemption starting at around six weeks of pregnancy. ** THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN SENATORS HAVE PASSED A RESOLUTION THAT PERMITS A FETUS...
by louisphillips
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on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 07:36 PM PDT
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This is just beyond insane. The psychopaths who run the gun manufacturer Sig Sauer are about to release the MCX-SPEAR, which is the civilian version of the US Army’s new NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle) onto American streets, as if the AR-15...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Wed Jul 20, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
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Way back in the day, I read the funnies, and I suppose I enjoyed Dilbert as much as the next person, especially as I was just getting into corporate culture. But I stopped reading about twenty years ...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jul 07, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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“There is literally no one more likely to move mountains than your megalomaniac syphilitic.” I thought I was numbed to trumpian shocks. Honestly, who thought he could go any lower? He now accuses Cassidy of being mentally ill. Apparently my self-dosing...
by agnostic
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on Mon Jul 04, 2022 at 03:46 PM PDT
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Let me count the ways. The Ohio bill I heard about has just send rage through me. All of these people killing people including children. 5 months before an election, there is already questions from them and that is how I will refer to these insane...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 09:01 AM PDT
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You don't buy a shiny muscle car that can go 120 in seconds to only park it and stare at it or only go 30 everywhere. You really want to feel that acceleration every now and then. You want to hear and feel that rumble. I know a guy in his 70s that has...
by Aequaliter
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on Fri May 27, 2022 at 04:36 AM PDT
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“If the Democratic Party—the only party that still supports democratic values and at least tries to solve problems—can muster the discipline and the will, it can run in 2022 and 2024 on ending the stranglehold of unhinged, minority rule.”—Jennifer...
by dratler
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 12:44 PM PDT
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abcnews.go.com/… From the article: As politicians spar over who's to blame for recent increases in gas prices, a large majority of Americans say oil companies and Russian President Vladimir Putin are major culprits, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds....
by Jamesleo
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on Sun Apr 10, 2022 at 09:24 AM PDT
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Someone posted a picture on Facebook, of Obelix, punching Vladimir Putin. Obelix, if you don’t know, is one of the main characters in the popular French comic Asterix the Gaul. He and his buddy, Asterix, are the only Gauls Rome never conquered. They...
by LadyJeand
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on Wed Apr 06, 2022 at 08:00 PM PDT
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